JLAudioFan
10-22-06, 05:39 PM
So I had kind of a wierd setup going on. I had 1 IDE HDD on IDE0, slave. I have 2 SATA hdd's also. I just added a new hard drive (IDE) that i installed windows vista on, so I switched the drive from slave to master, and put the vista drive as slave.
P IDE -
0 80gb hdd
1 20gb hdd - windows vista install
S IDE -
0 dvd burner
1 cd burner
SATA
ch2 80gb hdd - windows xp install
ch3 300gb hdd
Now, I keep getting the "DISK BOOT FAILURE BLAH BLAH"
Not really a big deal, since I can pick which drive I want to boot off of by hitting esc at the POST screen.
What I need to know, is which drive's boot.ini file I need to modify (IE, which drive the computer looks at to read the boot.ini file)
If someone knows how to explain what the different pieces of the boot ini like mean (multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)) I would appreciate it. I know what the Partition means, what i'm trying to figure out is which of the "disk" entries i should be changing to find one that works.
I would like to have that nifty OS select screen so i can pick vista or xp...
Funny side note... using windows vista to fix my windows xp install... who'da thunk it?
P IDE -
0 80gb hdd
1 20gb hdd - windows vista install
S IDE -
0 dvd burner
1 cd burner
SATA
ch2 80gb hdd - windows xp install
ch3 300gb hdd
Now, I keep getting the "DISK BOOT FAILURE BLAH BLAH"
Not really a big deal, since I can pick which drive I want to boot off of by hitting esc at the POST screen.
What I need to know, is which drive's boot.ini file I need to modify (IE, which drive the computer looks at to read the boot.ini file)
If someone knows how to explain what the different pieces of the boot ini like mean (multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)) I would appreciate it. I know what the Partition means, what i'm trying to figure out is which of the "disk" entries i should be changing to find one that works.
I would like to have that nifty OS select screen so i can pick vista or xp...
Funny side note... using windows vista to fix my windows xp install... who'da thunk it?